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Example of a round-robin tournament with 10 participants. A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn. [1] [2] A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, wherein participants are eliminated after a certain number of wins or losses.
Round-robin tournaments are also used in rugby union, curling and many amateur or lower-division basketball, football and hockey tournaments. In 1992, the Little League World Series went to a round-robin tournament in the first round, instead of single-elimination. In 2001, the tournament expanded to 16 teams and stayed with a round robin for ...
A special type of group tournament is the Round-robin tournament, in which each player plays against every other player. Usually each competitor finishes with an equal number of matches, in which case rankings by total points and by average points are equivalent at the end of the tournament, though not necessarily while it is in progress.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs is the annual elimination tournament held to determine the league champion.The four-round, best-of-seven tournament is held after the league's regular season and its preliminary postseason tournament, the NBA play-in tournament.
In certain sports, a magic number is a number used to indicate how close a front-running team is to clinching a division title and/or a playoff spot. It represents the total of additional wins by the front-running team or additional losses (or any combination thereof) by the rival teams after which it is mathematically impossible for the rival teams to capture the title in the remaining number ...
Here's a look at where the NCAA Tournament bubble stands as men's college basketball heads into February. Who's in, and who's out?
The 2024 Mid-American Conference tournament bracket is set, and the No. 7 seed Miami University RedHawks are scheduled to face the second-seeded Akron Zips in the first round Thursday, March 14 ...
The NBA's format calls for the winner of the first-round series between the first and eighth seeds (within each of the two conferences the league has) to face the winner of the first-round series between the fourth and fifth seeds in the next round, even if one or more of the top three seeds had been upset in their first-round series; critics ...